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National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I call Deputy Harty, who is sharing time with Deputy Fitzpatrick.

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I call Deputy Stanley who has six minutes, including for questions and answers.

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: The delivery of modern instant communication, be it mobile phone coverage or high-speed broadband, is a necessity in this day and age, not a luxury as some people seem to think, particularly for people in the countryside. Whether for a farmer, for a schoolchild, for someone who does not want to have to commute to the city, or for a rural school, it is essential. The announcement yesterday...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Well done on his leniency.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: The programme for Government contains a commitment to an enhanced health service. During the recess, the President of the High Court suspended a doctor from the medical register who had worked in South Tipperary General Hospital, Mayo University Hospital and in Navan, in my own area. I am very concerned with ensuring that entirely substandard practitioners are suspended. More importantly,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I raise this in reference to the programme for Government and the fitness to practice inquiry. I wish to ask if the Government is satisfied that the latter is operating correctly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 1543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the 2018 review of income eligibility levels for social housing will be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18913/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: It is unfinished business.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: CE is the backbone of many rural and urban organisations. I will not go back over what other Deputies have said but I did hear the Minister, Deputy McHugh, say "unfinished business". This is clearly unfinished business. The recommendations of the Labour Court and the agreement that there would be a follow-up, with a high-level forum that would deal with this issue need to be dealt with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Promised legislation is due before the House on in vitrofertilisation and assisted human reproduction availability. We all know that at present, private patients who can afford it can avail of services. One in four couples in this country struggle to have children and the cost of treatment is excessive and prohibitive for many. I am well aware that income tax relief can be claimed for this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Money was promised in this respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Commission for Victims and Survivors (11 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I thank the commissioner for her presentation and Mr. Bracknell. It is on days like today that my belief in politics is restored. The first thing I want to say is that this report should be delivered to each and every one of the victims and survivors. Sometimes I think, although this is a live broadcast, we are talking to ourselves. If the report was delivered to the victims and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Commission for Victims and Survivors (11 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: No, I am fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Commission for Victims and Survivors (11 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: I propose, as Ms Thompson has just said, that this committee call on that action that she has just referred to and that we write, as a committee, calling for that action. Without wanting to come back in, separate to that I omitted to say that I thought it is appropriate when we are dealing with the issue of the victims and survivors that this committee in whatever capacity would publicly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Commission for Victims and Survivors (11 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: :Through the Chair I propose that the committee write to the Minister for justice and the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste asking for action.

Rural and Community Development: Statements (10 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: The Irish proverb - ar scáth a cheile a mhaireann na daoine - people live in each others shadows, was certainly true of rural communities in the past. We saw the importance of meitheal, neighbours looking out for each other, with a deep sense of who they were, where they wanted to be and with a vision to better one another's quality of life. However, despite all the modern...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: Please do not interrupt.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made with Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of timescales for the delivery of the bypass at Ardee, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16290/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to alleviate the concerns expressed by residents of the negative impact of creating a cul-de-sac at Mulleston and Townpark road once the N52 realignment is constructed in 2019, further to his meetings with local resident groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16291/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 Apr 2019)

Declan Breathnach: 533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if priority will be given to the necessary retrofit upon the completion of the realignment of the N52 in order to remedy the negative impact of creating a cul-de-sac at Mulleston and Town Park road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16292/19]